However, over 20% of kidney transplants result in rejection within five years. Rejection is primarily due to a hypersensitive immune system and ischemia/reperfusion injury. Bilirubin has been shown to be a potent antioxidant that is capable of potentially reversing or preventing damage from reactive...
For the 16,000 people who receive akidney transplantin the U.S. each year, the standard of care involves a post-surgery regimen that includes corticosteroid and calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) immunosuppressants—drugs that for decades have helped organ transplant patients live, but can also come wit...
It is not uncommon for kidney transplants to fail. Once transplanted, the kidney must connect back with the blood supply to start working properly and be truly accepted by the body. Delays can cause complications. An example, known as delayed graft function (DGF), is where the new kidney c...
• New discoveries of drugs with potential for the treatment of DKD. Abstract Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is not only one of the main complications of diabetes, but also the leading cause of the end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The occurrence and development of DKD have always been a se...
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points; and a lack of adequate biomarkers of intrarenal inflammation and parenchymal injury. We suggest that overcoming these hurdles, in addition to searching for better therapeutic targets, will be necessary to progress the treatment of immune-mediated kidney disease into a new age of drug therapy...
(HF) events in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (Bhatt et al.2021; Pitt et al.2023). Despite its positive impact on glycemic control, the FDA has not approved sotagliflozin for diabetes treatment due to concerns related to diabetic ketoacidosis (Markham and Keam2019)...
metabolism primarily for storage and transportation and pumps oxygenated blood through the organ at body temperature, keeping the kidney working after it has been removed from the donor. This research focussed on whether the technique can also be used to deliver treatments to improve kidney function....
A recent study in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) provides an estimate of the proportion of working-aged kidney transplant recipients who are employed in the Netherlands and identifies characteristics that are associated wi
There is therefore a search for new therapies, particularly safe and effective oral treatments and those that are more efficacious in severe asthma. New therapies in development include mediator antagonists and inhibitors of cytokines, although these therapies might be too specific to be very effective...